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प्रश्न
Anand invited ______ friends for the birthday party.
पर्याय
few
a few
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उत्तर
Anand invited a few friends for the birthday party.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Fill in the blank in the following dialogue choosing a suitable phrase from those given below.
Teacher: You were away from school without permission. Go to the principal ________and submit your explanation.
Pupil: Yes, Madam. But would you help me write it first?
Say whether the verb in the sentence below is transitive or intransitive. Ask yourself a ‘what’ question about the verb. (For some verbs, an object is a person, so ask the question ‘who’ instead of ‘what’).
You found him.
Add -ly to the following adjectives, then use them to fill in the blank.
1) perfect
2) near
3) kind
4) pleasant
5) eager
_________ write your name and address in capital letters.
Complete these pieces of conversation using will or going to with the verbs given.
Rani : What shall we have for dinner?
Ravi : I can’t decide.
Rani : Make up your mind.
Ravi : All right, then. We __________ (have) fried rice and dry beans.
Rewrite the following in indirect speech.
“How will you have it?” he said.
“In the fifties,” I said.
Rewrite the following sentence by rectifying the errors in the use of modal.
Make me a cup of tea, shall you?
Look at the suffixes given and frame two new words. One is done for you.
| Suffix | Word-1 | Word-2 |
| ly | suddenly | happily |
| or | ||
| er | ||
| ness | ||
| ian | ||
| ist |
Complete the story using the past tense of the verbs.
The Hare and the Tortoise
One day a Hare and a Tortoise decided to have a race. The Tortoise _______ (know) that the Hare _________ (can) run faster than him. But the Tortoise _______ (be) more intelligent than the Hare. 'Yes, I'll race you,'_________ (say) the Tortoise. The Tortoise ______ (have) a clever plan. He ______ (find) his brothers and sisters and he ______ (tell) them to wait in different places along the path of the race. So they all ______ (hide) behind the trees along the path. The race ______ (begin)! The Tortoise ______ (run) as fast as possible. But the Hare ______ (be) faster, of course. 'This will be a very easy race', ______ (think) the Hare. So the Hare _________ (decide) to rest, and he quickly ____ (fall) asleep at the side of the road. Suddenly, the Hare ______ (wake up) and he ______ (see) a Tortoise ahead of him! 'How did he get ahead of me?' the Hare asked himself. In fact, it ______ (be) not his friend the Tortoise: it ______ (be) the Tortoise's sister. But to a Hare, all tortoises look the same. The Hare ______ (run) past the Tortoise easily. Soon, he ______ (cannot) see the Tortoise, so he ______ (sit) down to rest. Then the Hare ______ (get up) and continued the race. But as the Hare _______ (turn) around the last corner before the finish line, his friend the Tortoise crossed the line and ______ (win) the race!
My mother throws a______ of grains for the parrots every day.
Join the sentence using ‘ Relative Pronoun’.
This is Varun. His father is an architect.
Read the following sentences carefully and underline the preposition.
Divya hid the sweets behind her back.
Frame sentences of your own using the below idiomatic phrases.
| go far | blow up | show up | call on | break off | knuckle under |
Fill in the blank with appropriate airline vocabulary given in the options.
The plane almost missed the ______because it was such a bad storm.
Underline the conjunction in the following sentence.
Shekar is intelligent but careless.
Work in pairs and say the sentence to each other. Do you hear any difference in the way it is spoken? Discuss and share with the class. Discuss the difference in the meaning of the sentence.
Look at this banyan tree.
Complete the Conditional Sentence. Decide whether to use Type I, II, or III.
If she __________ (come) to see us, we will go to the zoo.
Choose the meaning of the italicised word.
Usha Rani is an expert at giving leads.
Punctuate the following sentence.
I like playing with my friends sandy sunny sameer.
Fill in the blank with the collective noun.
a _________ of fish.
A conjunction is a word that joins two words or a sentence.
Do you want apple _________ pear?
Recite any four lines of the poem with correct intonation.
Now, use the verb given in bracket in the following sentence in their correct form.
He ____(be) likely to miss the train. He ____(run) up to the station.
In the following passage, circle(bold) the verbs in simple present tense and underline the verbs in simple past. The first one has been done for you.
That night he strolled into the Palette Club about eleven o’clock and found Trevor sitting by himself in the long room. “Well, Alan, did you get the picture finished all right? ” he said, as he lit his cigarette. “Finished and framed, my boy!” answered Trevor, “and by-the-bye, you have made a conquest. That old model you saw is quite devoted to you. I had to tell him all about you - who you are, where you live, what your income is, what prospects you have.”
Underline the correct verb in these sentence.
Ravi (do€esn’t, don’t) like sports.
Here are some more idioms taken from the lesson. Find out their meaning and use them in sentence of your own.
have cold feet
Look at the list of idioms given below. Find their meanings from a dictionary. Read the sentences that follow and replace the words in italics with the appropriate idioms, making suitable changes wherever necessary.
- right up one’s alley -
- drive one up the wall –
- hit the road –
- take (one) for a ride –
- in panic mode –
- The old man got irritated at the loud noise outside.
- We were driving, when it started raining heavily. After stopping for an hour, we began the journey again.
- Ramesh gave false excuses for not attending the meeting and deceived me.
- At the interview when questions were fired at me rapidly, I forgot everything and grew irritated
- I love thrillers and this book appeals to me strongly.
Given below are some idiomatic expressions with their meanings. Understand the meaning.
Replace the underlined word/expression with possibly polite form.
Elambrathi has a second-hand car.
Write the compound word from the pictures.
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| ______ | |
In the following item, sentence I is complete, while sentence II is not. Complete sentence II, making it as similar as possible to sentence I. Write sentence II in the case.
(I) P.G. Wodehouse is the funniest author I have ever read.
(II) No other ____________.
